So you want to run your own brain? Good for you. What a wonderful
objective! And so rare. Many people talk about running their own brain and
taking charge of their own mind, but just watch them when criticized or
insulted. They go to pieces. Let one of their closely held beliefs be
questioned, and watch out. Sudden it becomes semantic reaction time. They
explode with rage, anger, stress, fear, shock, etc. If they truly "run their own
brains," how is it that they lack state management skills in the moments when
managing one's reactions really counts?

Running our own brain, and thinking freely in independent ways apart
from rehashing worn-out or spoon fed thoughts necessitates several things. It
necessitates that we develop mindfulness about our brains (or more accurately,
our minds) so that we actually develop state management skills. It means we
learn to play a new Game, The "Running My Own Brain" Game. So,
with that in mind:

What do you need to understand about brains to be able to run yours?

Would you like to play the Brain Game?

SEVEN BRAIN FACTS

Here are seven things about your brain. They provide a description about how
brains work. They also establish an understanding of the Game of Running Your
Own Brain and so lead to the Rules of the Game.

#1: Brains Follow Directions

Brains follow directions. They take the directions that you give them and
they follow them.

"John, did you see that red, white and blue cat yesterday? Yes, red, white
and blue― in fact, the American Flag colors were bright red, white, and blue.
Someone in the neighborhood must have thought it would be a patriotic thing to
do. Where did I see it? On Linda's yellow car. It was being chased by a pair
of French Poodles across the greenbelt by the swimming pool. That was just
before King Kong climbed to the top of the school and beat his chest at the
circling plane."

Provide a little description and the brain goes to work representing the
information on our internal mental screen. Like a movie director, brains use the
information as instructions for our mental Cinema. This explains why the
following are very important questions for our states:

What directions are you giving your brain?
What are the default instructions that you've learned to give your brain?
What instructions did your parents or teachers provide you about yourself,
life, others, etc.?
How useful, ecological, healthy, balanced, valuable, true, etc. are those
instructions?
Do those instructions create empowering states for you?
Would you want to give those instructions to your children?
Do they map out an exciting and loving life?

Why are these questions so important? Because the quality of our lives
is a function of the quality of the information processed by our brain.
The quality of that information flows from the quality of its instructions. The
most important thing you do in life then are the instructions that you give your
brain. Are the instructions those that you would use to create a world-class
movie?

Recently a young man wrote to me.

"I'm an extremely shy person. When I see a social situation, I avoid it
because I say to myself that I'll have nothing to say and that I'll be a
complete idiot because they will find me boring, then I'll feel depressed. So
I just don't go. Every time I make a mistake, I feel stupid, then depressed.
And that's what causes me to procrastinate. It's really stupid, and I know
better, and I see it causing me to produce sub-optimally. I feel like these
are insurmountable problems...."

I copied the words from the email, cut and pasted them back into my reply. I
then asked him to step back from the words and view them as brain
instructions.

"Just pretend for a moment that these are instructions for your brain. Are
these ideas healthy or sick ones? Would you recommend this way of thinking?
Suppose the most popular kid at the university thought this way. How much of a
party would these instructions make his or her life?"

There's a principle in this. Namely, feed your brain toxic ideas and you
enter into a toxic world. Your brain will go there because that's what brains
do. Brains go places. Just this week I caught a Brain (thank God it
wasn't mine) going to "Worst Case Scenario!" The person was talking about
terrorism in the world. He then entertained unimaginable scenarios. Then he
freaked out. Then he said, "This shouldn't happen!"

And I can tell you, these instructions did not put him in a very resourceful
state.

Brains use words, pictures, sounds, tones, volumes, smells, tastes, all kinds
of things as the basis for swishing us places. Mention a word and off your brain
goes. But where? It depends on your learning history, experiences, memories,
imaginations, hopes, etc. Brains are phenomenal at linking things. They do so
very, very quickly. Actually, this is one of the chief problems we have with our
brains. The problem is not that they don't learn, but that they learn too
quickly. It's just what they learn that often times is just not true or
useful.

Brains are also incredible instruments that never shut down. Even in sleep,
we dream as brain wave activity continues. This becomes a problem if we don't
give the brain lots of interesting things to process. The stimulus hunger of
brains will trigger them to play the old B-rated movies or hallucinate freely.

#2: Brains Externalize Instructions

We can see a person's internal world of ideas and frames by noticing the
person's external Games. External life reflects internal frames. The
behavioral, speech, and action Games that we play on the outside are expressions
of our internal frames of mind. They go together. Games and Rules of the Games.

The old proverb put it this way: "As a man thinks in his heart, so is he."
The Roman philosopher Marcus Aurelius put this yet another way:

"As thy thoughts are so will thy mind be also; for the soul takes its
coloring from thought."
"If you are pained by an external thing, it is not this thing that disturbs
you―but your judgment about it." (The Meditations, 160 AD).

Brains manifest internal representation into the external world so that we
externalize our internal frames and representations. What does this mean?
Namely, that our external world will only be as exciting, vibrant, dramatic, and
powerful as our internal frames of mind. So, as you decorate your internal world
of mind, imagination, and memory with hopes, desires, wonders, delights, etc.,
you alter the quality and content of the instructions that you give to your
brain.

This brings up several excellent questions for those of us who want to run
our own brain to create a quality life:

What kind of images, sounds, words, sensations, etc. do you have running on
the inside of your brain?
What kind of internal movies are you showing in the Cinema of your Mind?
Who does your interior decorating?
Does your internal world of frames need some better interior decorating?

#3: Brains Run on Representations

The cognitive and neuro-sciences have discovered that brains represent our
external sensed experiences. It is not that we literally have an internal movie
screen in our mind, yet it seems that we do. This phenomena of consciousness
is how we experience thoughts and awareness's. It seems that we internally
recall what our home, car, work, friends, parents, dogs, etc. look like,
sound like, smell like, feel like, taste like. This sensory awareness on the
inside of our brain has led neuro-scientists to designate parts of the brain the
visual cortex, auditory cortex, the cortex where we process smells, tastes,
sensations, balance, etc.

Korzybski and others noted that we operate upon the world, not directly, but
via a map of the world. In NLP, Bandler and Grinder revolutionized
psychology by putting the foundation of thought in terms of the sensory
representations systems and using these modalities of awareness as the first
"languages" of the mind. This facet of running our own brain seems so simple,
yet it is so profound.

If we picture a beautiful day with blue sky and billowy white clouds and a
green grass lawn facing the white sands of a gorgeous ocean view and imagine
feeling the warm ocean breeze blowing through our hair and the smell of the
salt water and the sounds of children playing and enjoy our favorite drink
while getting a neck and back massage from our special loved one ...

Well, it doesn't take long before our body and neurology responds to those
representations as if they were instructions about how to feel. Because brains
run on representations, the more expressive, vivid, dramatic, and
sensory-specific, the easier it is for us to tell our brains where to go and
what to feel. Then the screen play is clearer and easier to follow.

Our brains represent things as it were on a mental screen of the mind.
It's like there's an internal movie playing and we fill in the sensory details
of that movie. Of course, we do not play out everything in that Cinema. We
can't. We can't even input all that comes in. Our eyes only scan a very narrow
part of the electromagnetic spectrum. Our ears only receive a very narrow band
of sound wave frequencies. So we have to be pretty selective, as a movie
director, about what we play on our internal Cinema. Choose well. It's your
brain.

#4: Brains Transition In and Out of the Present Moment

With that last induction (three paragraphs above), did you leave where you
are now and go somewhere else? If you didn't, perhaps you could use the
words to do that. Try it out. Because we represent things, we can
represent realities that are not immediately present and go there. This is the
foundation of all day-dreaming, night-dreaming, fantasizing, learning,
creativity, invention, thinking, conceptualizing, mathematizing, theorizing,
etc. This is what we humans do best. We can leave our current situation
and travel to distance places, times, and worlds.

We call this thinking. It's also hypnosis. It's also trance. It's many
things: imagination, fantasy, creativity, and hallucination. This means that we
are not stuck or limited to his present moment. We can represent things
not present, never present, and even impossible things.
What freedom of mind we have! It's a freedom of consciousness that's unique to
our species. We have a consciousness that can transition from our current
state to other states, hence the word "trance." Anytime we shift our awareness
to something that is not part of our current awareness, we enter a trance state.

This means that most of our states of mind are trances. We mostly live
in hypnotic states not sensory aware states in this present moment.
Hypnosis is the norm, our default situation, not present time sensory acuity. We
call hypnosis or trance "downtime" in NLP because we are down inside ourselves
thinking, feeling, and experiencing other times, places, people, and ideas. We
call present time sensory acuity "uptime" because we are "up" and noticing what
our eyes see, ears hear, skin feels, etc.

"Hey, Tom! Tom, Earth to Tom!"

"What?"

Our brains love to zone out. Doesn't yours? It happens when you drive on long
trips, it happens even when you drive to the grocery store. It happens when you
wait in line, in an elevator, and when you're listening to a speech. Brains do
that. It's no big deal. Well, it's not unless you have no guidance or control
over it. Then it is a big deal. If you lack awareness of when you are present
and when you're off on some mind-trip, then you are doing out-of-control
hallucinating.

We all hallucinate. Those who do so mindfully and by choice are our greatest
scholars, inventors, creators, designers, teachers, CEOs, etc. Those who don't
do it by choice suffer from under-achieving and the ineffectiveness of not being
able to manage their own mind. They don't run their own brains.

#5: Brains Induce States

Brains put us into neurological states. They affect our physiology,
breathing, movement, and internal chemistry. To work up a good mad, we only have
to think angry thoughts of injustice and violation. We only have to think about
a dangerous threat and off we go into a fear state. And some representations of
sexuality can induce our body to experience desire and lust.

Brains do this because they are part of the body. They sit at the top of the
spinal cord and nervous system and bring in all of the nervous impulses
processed by the end receptors. Out of the structure of our multi-layered brains
emerge our sense of awareness we call "mind." Mind is an emergent property in
the neurology of our brain. So it is always mind-body or body-mind, and never
one without the other.

This explains why we mostly think or represent ourselves into our states but
why we also can act our way into states. This gives us two royal roads
into a mind-body state of consciousness whether it is confidence and joy and
love or fear, anger, and sadness. We can use mind and all of our internal
representations and we can use body (breathing, posture, movement, activity,
etc.).

What state are you in? What state do you go into when any given stimulus or
trigger occurs? You need look no further than the instructions you give
yourself at the mental dimension or what you do in terms of your posture, muscle
tension, breathing, etc. at the physiological dimension.

#6: Brains Go in Circles

Not only do our brains represent the world, go places, and put
us into states, but brains also do flips, they roll over, they flip back on
themselves, they go in circles. As there are feed forward and feedback loops in
the physical structure of the brain so that nervous impulses are sent to the
thalamus and the amygdala they are simultaneously passed on to the escorted and
after processing there back to the lower brain structures. It's all
inter-connected. We even have an associative cortex that keeps everything
connected with everything else so that we have more cortical connections in the
three trillion brain cells than atoms in the universe.

No wonder we loop around. No wonder we can worry about our humor and wonder
if we are caring too much and then become afraid of our worry and then think
something must be wrong with us that we are worry about something so silly as
that. We get caught up in down spirals of negative thoughts and can become
obsessive compulsive. We can get caught up in positive spiral of thoughts and
suffer from insomnia due to our excitement.

Our brains are not strictly logical. To think in a straightforward way and to
stay on that path for more than a few seconds is very difficult for our brains.
That's why mathematics and formal logic seem so foreign to us. It's not the
natural habit of our mind. We think in circles. Our brains go around in loops
and spirals. We keep reprocessing the same tired old thoughts.

This reflexivity is what allows us to layer thought upon thought,
feeling upon feeling, thought upon feeling, memory upon imagination, fear upon
anger, dread upon worry, joy upon learning, etc. This creates the whole domain
of our meta-states―our states of thoughts and feelings about other thoughts and
feelings. And that's what creates the layering effect of our awareness so that
we can create great complexity in our experiences.

We begin with a reference experience, bring it in and represent it, then
develop thoughts and feelings about that, and so on until what was "out there"
becomes a frame of reference, a frame of mind and then the very frameworks of
four personality and orientation. This creates the Rules of the Game, or our
highest frames of mind.

#7: Brains Frame Things

This is one of the greatest powers of our brain for health and sanity and for
insanity and destructiveness. Our brains frame. They do so to create
contextual meaning. Things, events, people, even words do not mean anything in
and of themselves. It takes a brain to create meaning, a "thing" that does not
exist out there but is a production of the brain.

Actually, the brain creates two levels of meaning. Associative meaning
arises when we link up one thing with another thing. What does a cookie mean? It
depends on what you have associated with a cookie. It could mean a sweet or junk
food. It could mean reward or lack of nutrition. It could mean delight and fun,
it could mean threat to my diet. It could mean survival, it could mean fat.

Because brains link ideas, images, feelings, etc., things easily become
associated. This creates triggers or anchors. One thing (a sight, sound,
sensation, word, etc.) triggers another thing. Stimulus― Response. In this way
we create structures of the mind that we call understandings or knowledge. These
are not "things," but organizations of associations―how we have sequenced or
ordered the frames in our movies.

What does an "authority figure" mean? Where does your brain go when you think
about an "authority figure?" What state does it evoke? Pleasant or unpleasant?
Resourceful or unresourceful? Just thoughts ... connected in your brain
to memories, awareness's, meanings.

Then there is contextual or frame meaning. Once we have linked up and
associated things and bring that association into our mind as our frame of
reference, we develop higher level thoughts about it. We call these ideas
"concepts." In this way we now look at things through a conceptual frame of
mind. It becomes a filter. We call them meta-states and meta-programs. This
establishes a mental context for thinking and feeling. This is how we turn
associations into higher level maps. Doing so establishes the mental Rules of
the Games that we then play.

We first associate a harsh tone of voice with being spanked. Later we develop
ideas and concepts that people who strain their vocal chords are mean, hurtful,
and nasty. Then we develop higher frames that "criticism is bad," "confrontation
always ruins things," "I'm sensitive to criticism," "I cannot handle that tone
of voice," etc. These thoughts create the higher frames of mind about an
event and semantically load that event. So when someone strains the vocal
chords, the meanings I experience in relation to that event puts me into very
unresourceful states. All of this happens so quickly that on the inside it
seems like and feels like "the criticism" (or harsh tonality) makes me upset,
angry, or frustrated. This is how we set up and play the Games that we do.

Brains deal with data overload by making generalizations. They create
categories for items; they organize things into groups. This allows us to
develop contextual meanings from our frames, giving us an even higher way to
interpret things.

"Oh, that's just information. Good. For a minute I thought that was
criticism."

How we categorize a thing determines what it "is" to us― in our neurology.
Yet as we frame, so we become. What we organize on the inside, in-forms us. We
are all psychologically organized by our belief frame, value frames, identity
frames, decision frames, etc. And the thing about the brain framing is that
as we frame, so we play the frame games that we do.

HOW TO PLAY THE BRAIN GAME

Now that you know about brains (minds), what they do and how they work,
you're ready to play the Brain Game. This is the Running Your Own Brain Game,
one of the original visions of NLP. With Neuro-Semantics we take this even
further to run our own brain at the highest levels of the mind (The
Secrets of Personal Mastery, 2000).

Did I mention that brains are stupid? At least in one sense they are very
stupid, in the aspect of quality. In that area, they are less intelligent
than stomachs. Really. After all, if we feed our stomach garbage, it at least
knows how to vomit. Not so the brain. Feed it garbage and it doesn't think
twice, it just processes the garbage. Feed it toxic ideas, poisonous thoughts,
limiting beliefs, irrational conclusions, and inaccurate mapping and it doesn't
know any better than to represent it, assume it is real, and then believe
it. Brains themselves are not discriminating about quality, at least not near as
much as the stomach. Whether the information is accurate, useful, true,
productive, hurtful, stupid, etc., it doesn't seem to matter.

So, given this stupidity of brains, we have to take charge of the Quality
Control of the information we feed it. We call this "running an ecology
check." Reality test the value, health, and balance of an idea in the whole
system of your body, relationships, energy, etc. This is the first Rule of the
Game.

If you don't do this, prepare yourself for trouble because trouble, problems,
ill-health, incongruent, sabotage, conflict, etc. you will get. This Brain Game
Rule says,

Consider anything that your brain produces in your body, emotions, speech,
behavior, relationships that puts you in constant conflict, that keeps repeating
patterns that don't work, that creates incongruity, ineffectiveness,
unresourcefulness, etc. as absurd. Then stop it! If you follow this first
rule, your life will probably radically change and transform in a matter of
weeks. This is an extremely powerful and pervasive Rule.

If what you are doing, whether in communication to yourself or others,
whether in relationship to your work, career, relationships, health, etc. is not
working as an ongoing pattern, STOP. To keep repeating long term patterns
that don't work while hoping for different results is a practical definition of
"insanity." It is absolutely ludicrous to keep replaying the old movies of hurt
and pain in the theater of your mind. Wasn't once enough? It's ludicrous because
while the first time it happen to you, after that first time you have been
doing it to yourself! It's your brain doing it. It's not happening "out
there" anymore. If you're still watching that B-rated movie, and you are the
director of the movie.

Does this enhance my life over the long-run?
Does this empower me as a person?
Does this make life a party?

This Rule will radically challenge everybody still whining over childhood
aches and pains, feeling like a victim to a failed marriage or business, or
blaming others for their lack of success. This Rule enables you to live in a
different way and to play a different Game― a more passionate and ferocious
Game, one where you move out into life looking for opportunities and taking
risks and playing to your strengths.

Rule #2: Rise Up in your Mind to Become Aware of the Games

You Only Get to Run Your Own Brain if You have Meta-Awareness

Everybody does not get to run his or her own brain. There is one primary
condition for getting to run your own brain, you have to know that you have a
brain to run and awareness of how you are currently running it. The brain
creates first level "awareness," awareness of the world. This is the
consciousness of animals and small children. Awareness of that awareness,
meta-awareness, moves us to a higher level of mind. If you don't know that
you are running your own brain or how you are running it, then
your unawareness will be unconscious. Then you won't get to run
your own brain. Your Brain will run you!

This Rule ought to scare the hell out of out you! Does it? Unconsciousness
means that you are not mindful of what's going on. Use that as a cue. Do you
ever scratch your head wondering that? Do you have ask:

Hey, what's going on here? Why do I feel this way?
Why can't I seem to get ahead?
Why am I always running around in circles and never getting on with things?
I don't know what came over me; I just flipped out?
I don't seem to have control of my emotions.

When Rule #2 says that you only get to run your own brain when you develop
meta-awareness of what you're doing, it posits awareness as the key
condition. This is a big challenge for many. Over the years many have asked,
"Would you just hypnotize me and make this problem go away?" I played that Game
for awhile. Then I realized the toxicity in that attitude. It's the wrong
attitude if you really want to have control over your own life. That attitude
will not lead you on to personal mastery. That attitude indicates the failure to
actively participate in your own life. And that's why it has to be refused.

In NLP and NS we know that the magic is in the structure. The structure of an
experience itself is the magic. That's why we model. We model experts to
learn how they do it. Do what? Run their own brain with regard to a
specific area (selling, parenting, relating, communicating, wealth building,
health and fitness, leadership, etc.). Once we know that, we know how to find
the magic in any field or expertise.

This explains why we do the kind of trainings that we do. We seek to teach to
the conscious mind. We want consciousness involved. So while we utilize
processes for working with facets of mind outside of conscious awareness, we
focus on empowering people to run their own brains without becoming dependent
upon us. So we facilitate their self-awareness and ego-strength to look reality
in the face, and laugh, and feel ferocious.

This rule leads to various questions and orientations.

What is the basic attitude that drives this experience?
What frame of mind do I need in order to experience this orientation?
How does he do that?
How can I adopt her frame of mind about that?

Rule #3: Beware of Your Frame Referencing

Just Because Your Brain Framed it Does Not Make it Useful

If your brain frames, and if the frames that you set create the Games that
you play, take care what you reference and how. We all know people (perhaps we
have been such) who experience one or more negative events in life and then (to
make things worse), build their lives around that event. Talk about a
program that sucks. This is the structure of sick magic: Center your life around
a Tragedy, Misfortune, or Injustice! This violates Rule #1 for the Brain Game.
It is failing to consider this way of representing and framing things as totally
absurd.

Decided to build your life around great events. Find (or invent) wonderful
references that you can center you life around.

What wonderful event could I build my life around?
What inspiring referent experience (real or imagined) would I like to
commission at the center of my attention
and focus?
If I did, what else would have to change?
And what other supporting ideas or beliefs would enable me to frame things
this way?

What you reference, how you reference in terms of the representation richness
you encode it in and what you set as your governing frames makes all the
difference in the world. It controls and governs the Games that you play. Are
you playing the Games that you want to play? If not, then take a look at the
entire referencing and framing sequence and design a more empowering one.

As everything habituates so do the neuro-pathways and the internal processing
of the brain. When we habituate a way of thinking, an information processing
style, or a direction for sending our brain, it eventually becomes our
meta-programs or sorting styles. This defines our current trance that organizes
our mind-body states. Frames become our software programs or default maps for
how to operate in any given arena of life.

Rule #4: Lighten Up and Have Lots of Fun with your Brain

If you don't enjoy the process, you will get stupid.

Here's another rule in the Brain Frame Game. If you get serious about things,
you will get stupid. Stupidity is the occupational hazard of getting
serious about things. Getting serious typically undermines such graces as humor,
laughter, enjoyment, playfulness, silliness, and ludicrousness. And yet these
are the saving graces that keep us human. These are the saving graces for being
real, being spiritual, and being authentic. Lose these and you will not be able
to run your own brain with any dignity or grace.

Lose humor and laughter and you loose perspective. You'll even begin to be
seduced into playing the God Game, thinking you are perfect (or should be), know
it all (or should), and be everywhere and do everything (hence, indispensable).
If any of that seems legitimate, you are in danger of getting stupid very
rapidly.

Now the stupidity of seriousness causes people to become stiff and rigid.
They get "right" (or so they think), then proud of being right. That leads to
stuffiness, arrogance, and the closing of the mind. It's a pitiful thing to see.
Yet it happens all too often. Many people pursue an advanced degree and then
think the degree bestows upon them an All-Knowingness. They actually think that
their every opinion is somehow sacred and should never be question. Doctors,
educators, and bureaucrats often fall into this fallacy. All of this increases
their stupidity because not only do they not know it all, but they cannot know
it all, no one can, and if they did, it would make life less worth living. The
fun is in the pursuit.

Rigid serious arrogance makes these people clowns when it comes to making a
mistake. Talk about watching a fallible human being make an ass of himself.
Watch one of these people do something wrong. The problem is that they can't be
wrong. It's not allowed. Yet their pomposity won't allow them to simply say,
"Oops. Missed that one."

This Rule in the Game of Running Your Own Brain says you have to enjoy and
delight yourself in your complete fallibility. Your brain is fallible and that
makes all you think fallible, all of your emotions, speech, behavior, and
actions. It is all "liable to error." Don't just accept this, enjoy it. How easy
is it for you to have fun with it? To poke fun at your own silliness? To be
ridiculous, make a fool of yourself, blow it, and still maintain all of your
dignity?

Serious people not only believe, they believe in their beliefs. This
is what makes them dangerous. That leads them to being fanatical "true
believers" who have closed their minds to the possibility of being wrong. Such
serious people never see the high comedy of their ridiculous position. It's
their lack of humor that leaves them with no perspective. So it is humor that's
our saving grace, that frees us up, that allows us to lighten up and to know
that all of our mental mapping is just that―fallible human mapping, at the best,
the highest thinking we can do at the moment.

Lighten up and enjoy the ride especially when you get into a loop. Just flow
with it. If you fight it, if you resist it, you add negative energy to the loop.
The quickest and easiest way out is paradoxical― welcome it and enjoy the ride.
It's just a loop of the mind. Play with it.

#5: Keep Teaching Your Brain New Tricks

Yes, your brain can (and will) learn new tricks. Count on it. Brains
are always learning, that's the good news. The bad news is that if you don't
take charge of what they are learning, they will learn trash. So in
playing the Brain Game, aim to constantly be teaching your brain more productive
things. Feed it the best data available: inspiring ideas, awesome thoughts,
empowering beliefs, and supporting understandings. Keep coding and recoding the
Cinema in your mind so that your internal world is dramatic, exciting, bigger
than life, full of grace and love, power and energy, make it alive and vital.
Create one new empowering frame of mind every week―in a year's time you'll have
52 enhancing frames for the Matrix of your Mind.

Set out on the exciting adventure of discovering, unpacking and replicating
the strategies of the experts. Forget "why" things go wrong and people are
stupid, focus on those who are producing excellence and search out their
strategy. Find out what movies are playing in the Cinema of their Minds. Find
out all of the cinematic features that make that movie so entertaining and the
states and higher level states it creates. After you do that for a year or two,
you'll have habituated the Movies of the Experts in your mind ... and body and
emotions and life.

Summary

There's a new Game in town. It's the Game of Running Your Own Brain. Nor
does it take a rocket scientist to understand the Game. Mostly it takes
self-awareness, meta-awareness, and the willingness to have fun
exploring how the brain creates the Matrix of Frames that then governs the
Games of our lives.